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CHINADAILY chinadaily.com.cn RMB ¥1.5FRIDAY, April 1, 2011 S ong Huaiying feels content. His family’s ancestral temple, after lying in ruins for 40 years, has been restored, enhancing clan unity and spiritual awareness. Th e Song temple in Dianhua village fell victim to maraud- ers during the “cultural revolu- tion” (1966-1976). Others met a similar fate or were displaced by land reform starting in the early 1950s. Now, hereditary buildings are rap- idly appearing in the countryside. A recent study by Southwest University of Political Science and Law found that 107 of 285 clans have re-established their ancestral temples or revised records of family trees in Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian, Hainan, Jiangxi and Taiwan. “Th e spiritual reliance on the traditions of Chinese peasants will always endure,” said lead researcher Xiao Tangbiao. “Many elders in the village dream of the revival, too,” said Song, who is in his 50s. “Th ey have been yearning to worship our ancestors.” And now the people of Dianhua village, Rucheng county in Hunan province, have a newly restored, three- hall ancestral temple that is fronted by a shining, candy- apple red gate. SEE “TEMPLES” PAGE 5 In this issue NATION ........................................... 2, 4 COVER STORY .................................. 5 DOCUMENT....................................6-11 WORLD .............................................. 12 BUSINESS ........................... 13, 14, 16, 17 LIFE ............................................... 18-21 SPORTS ..................................... 23, 24 Contacts News: (86-10) 6491-8366 Subscription: (86) 400-699-0203 Advertisement: (86-10) 6491-8631 E-mail: editor@chinadaily.com.cn iPhone app: chinadaily.com.cn/iphone © 2011 China Daily All Rights Reserved Vol. 31 — No. 9643 国内统一编号:CN11-0091 邮发代号:1-3 国际标准编号:ISSN0253-9544 World Libyan army forces rebels to retreat; FM defects > Page 12 Life On the road less traveled > Page 19 COVER STORY Age of restoration for ancestral temples Heritage buildings refl ect clan history, Zhang Yuchen reports from Hunan. ‘Trust vital’ for Straits military ties By LI XIAOKUN, CHENG GUANGJIN AND LI LIANXING CHINA DAILY BEIJING — Authorities on both sides of the Taiwan Straits should explore the possibility of building a military security mechanism of mutual trust, formally end hostilities and reach a peace agreement, according to a white paper on China’s national defense issued on Th ursday. It is the first time for the biennial white paper, issued by the State Council Informa- tion Offi ce, to mention such a mechanism, proposed by President Hu Jintao in late 2008. Although cross-Straits economic and business ties have boomed during the past three decades — with mainland investment from the island topping more than $200 billion — the two sides have yet to establish military contact. Taiwan has repeatedly expressed concern over the mainland’s military deployment across the Straits, according to media reports. “The mainland’s military deployment absolutely doesn’t target the Tai- wan compatriots,” Senior Colonel Geng Yansheng, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, said at a news conference to introduce the white paper on Th ursday. Problems about military deployment could be dis- cussed when the two sides hold talks on the military security mechanism of mutual trust, he said. The white paper says the two sides may also discuss political relations “in the special situation that China is not yet reunifi ed in a prag- matic manner”. “The Chinese people on both sides of the Straits should try their best to avoid repeat- ing the history of armed SEE “PAPER” PAGE 2 Defense paper calls for measures to build confi dence with other nations Inside • Editorial, page 6 • Full text, pages 6-11 • Interview, page 12 ANGER ON THE STREETS PHOTO BY ISSEI KATO / REUTERS Protesters rally in front of the head offi ce of the Tokyo Electric Power Company during an anti-nuclear march in the Japanese capital on Th ursday. Levels of radioactive iodine in seawater near Japan’s stricken nuclear plant exceeded the safety limit by a record 4,385 times on Th ursday. See story on page 12. PAGE 2 | nation 25 / 28 25 / 29 26 / 30 26 / 30 24 / 31 22 / 30 24 / 29 22 / 36 22 / 37 18 / 36 18 / 36 6 / 14 7 / 17 16 / 25 17 / 27 15 / 29 19 / 29 17 / 24 18 / 25 25 / 30 24 / 31 24 / 31 25 / 29 10 / 21 10 / 15 15 / 26 15 / 27 -14 / 0 -11 / 3 12 / 17 11 / 16 FRIDAY SATURDAY 7 / 9 1 / 12 3 / 13 3 / 15 TRAVELER’S FORECAST Chengdu Urumqi Beijing Xining New Delhi Kathmandu Thimphu Yangon Singapore Jakarta Kuala Lumpur Bangkok Vientiane Ulaanbaatar Shanghai Bandar Seri Begawan Macao Hong Kong Guangzhou Manila Hanoi Taipei Seoul Pyongyang Tokyo Lhasa CHINA AMERICAS APRIL 1-2FRI - SAT LOW/HIGH TEMPERATURES, IN DEGREES CELSIUS, AND EXPECTED CONDITIONS C Cloudy D Drizzle Du Dust F Fog O Overcast R Rain Sh Shower S Sunny Sn Snow St Storm T Thunderstorms weather ASIA-PACIFIC-MIDDLE EAST EUROPE BuenosAires 13 / 29 S 16 / 28 C Chicago - 3 / 7 O - 1 / 5 D Caracas 20 / 33 O 21 / 34 T Houston 13 / 22 S 12 / 28 C Las Vegas 15 / 25 S 12 / 28 S Los Angeles 13 / 26 S 12 / 25 C Mexico City 18 / 30 O 18 / 33 O New York 2 / 8 R 0 / 5 R/Sn Ottawa - 2 / 5 R/Sn - 3 / 4 Sn Rio De Janeiro 23 / 26 S 23 / 26 Sh San Francisco 12 / 21 C 11 / 23 O Sao Paulo 18 / 23 Sh 19 / 25 Sh Vancouver 4 / 10 Sh 3 / 8 R Washington 5 / 9 D 0 / 7 Sh Athens 12 / 15 R 11 / 14 O Berlin 4 / 15 O 5 / 18 Sh Brussels 8 / 15 O 10 / 17 O Geneva 5 / 16 Sh 5 / 18 C Istanbul 8 / 15 Sh 8 / 10 Sh London 9 / 14 Sh 10 / 17 O Madrid 11 / 20 S 10 / 21 S Moscow - 8 /- 1 S - 5 / 4 C Paris 11 / 16 O 9 / 20 O Rome 9 / 18 S 9 / 19 S Vienna 4 / 18 Sh 6 / 19 C CHINA AFRICA 1 / 13 0 / 14 Cairo 14 / 32 S 15 / 31 O CapeTown 15 / 23 Sh 11 / 22 S Johannesburg 12 / 31 S 13 / 31 O Lagos 26 / 32 Sh 26 / 31 Sh Nairobi 16 / 27 Sh 16 / 28 T Abu Dhabi 13 / 35 R 14 / 35 D Bangkok 22 / 30 C 24 / 29 O Colombo 22 / 32 Sh 25 / 31 Sh Dubai 21 / 27 S 21 / 27 C Hanoi 17 / 23 O 18 / 24 C Islamabad 15 / 26 O 11 / 21 Sh Jakarta 25 / 28 Sh 25 / 29 Sh Karachi 23 / 34 S 21 / 36 S Kuala Lumpur 24 / 31 T 24 / 31 T Manila 25 / 30 Sh 24 / 31 O Mumbai 18 / 35 S 18 / 34 S New Delhi 18 / 36 S 18 / 36 S Pyongyang 0 / 13 C - 1 / 11 O Riyadh 16 / 30 C 17 / 33 C Seoul 1 / 13 O 0 / 14 O Singapore 26 / 30 T 26 / 30 Sh Sydney 17 / 22 S 15 / 19 T Teheran 11 / 21 C 9 / 20 O Tokyo 6 / 14 S 7 / 17 C Wellington 11 / 18 Sh 9 / 16 C Yangon 22 / 36 C 22 / 37 C Beijing 7 / 9 R 1 / 12 O Changchun - 2 / 9 S - 5 / 6 S Changsha 17 / 24 C 17 / 19 R Chongqing 14 / 20 D 13 / 19 D Dalian 4 / 8 O 3 / 10 C Fuzhou 11 / 23 C 13 / 25 C Guangzhou 15 / 26 C 15 / 27 C Guilin 15 / 25 C 15 / 23 O Guiyang 9 / 18 C 10 / 16 Sh Haikou 16 / 22 O 17 / 24 C Hangzhou 12 / 24 C 11 / 17 C Harbin - 3 / 6 S - 5 / 7 S Hefei 12 / 25 O 9 / 11 O Hohhot 0 / 4 R/Sn - 4 / 9 C Hongkong 17 / 24 C 18 / 25 C Jinan 8 / 17 C 4 / 10 D Kunming 10 / 22 C 10 / 22 C Lanzhou 7 / 15 C 5 / 15 C Lhasa 2 / 15 C 1 / 14 S Lijiang 5 / 16 C 4 / 17 C Macao 17 / 24 C 18 / 25 C Nanchang 13 / 24 C 13 / 23 C Nanjing 9 / 23 C 8 / 13 D Nanning 14 / 22 O 15 / 24 O Qingdao 5 / 14 C 3 / 11 O Sanya 19 / 27 C 21 / 29 C FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2011 Shanghai 10 / 21 C 10 / 15 O Shenyang 2 / 9 S - 3 / 10 S Shenzhen 18 / 28 S 19 / 29 C Shijiazhuang 9 / 13 D 3 / 13 D Suzhou 10 / 21 C 10 / 14 O Taipei 16 / 25 C 17 / 27 C Taiyuan 4 / 14 R - 2 / 7 Sn Tianjin 6 / 10 D 2 / 12 O Urumqi 3 / 13 S 3 / 15 S Wuhan 12 / 24 O 10 / 16 D Xiamen 14 / 24 S 15 / 26 S Xi’an 12 / 19 D 6 / 13 R Xining 0 / 13 C - 1 / 11 C Yantai 4 / 16 O 1 / 9 O Yinchuan 7 / 15 C 2 / 15 C Zhengzhou 12 / 18 O 6 / 10 Sh Zhuhai 18 / 24 S 18 / 25 S By CHENG YINGQI CHINA DAILY BEIJING — Chinese knotting was originally developed not as an art form in itself but was used to attach accessories, such as jade pendants, to clothing. Today, it is considered beau- tiful in its own right, thanks to people such as Taiwan’s Chen Xiasheng. Chen, who was born in 1939, has studied Chinese knotting since the early 1970s and was one of the fi rst people to intro- duce the centuries-old craft — with the help of books and exhibitions — to both Chinese and Western audiences, help- ing it become known around the world as Zhongguojie. On Wednesday, she was honored for her contribution to Chinese knotting at the Out- standing Fashion Personages Award Ceremony 2011, which were held in Beijing. “Th ese days, so many domes- tic designers are scrambling for ideas from Western countries, despite the fact that we already have such elegant, beautiful knotting,” Chen said. “Why not use Chinese knot- ting as a fresh element in cloth- ing design?” Her affection for knotting developed out of her interest in ancient clothing when she worked as a researcher at the Taipei Palace Museum between 1972 and 2001. She said Chinese people have been using knots for decoration since the 5th century BC and a wide range of knots have been developed over the years. “Th e archaeological signifi - cance of this is you can fi gure out when an antique was made based on the decoration and knotting it has,” Chen said. She said knowledge of the knots helped her when she was a researcher but she was not satisfi ed to keep them on paper and wanted to see what they looked like in bright colors and experience the way they felt. She used information about Chinese knotting available at the time, such as from ancient books, carvings and paintings, to start to make knots. “I copied all the knots I saw on paintings. Th en I analyzed their structure and found that all the knotting was formed by variable arrangements of some ‘basic cells’,” Chen said, adding that her college education in mathematics helped her make sense of them. Chen said 14 “basic cells” were used in various combina- tions. “This is so different from knots found in Western coun- tries, because they have only two basic types.” “In the West, people use very simple knots to form complex shapes, such as a tree or a dog, but the knots themselves are not decorative. In contrast, the Chinese knots themselves are ornamental,” she said, pointing to a necklace made of Chinese knots and small jade rings. Th e necklace is one of Chen’s favorites and stands out among the hundreds she has made dur- ing the past four decades. Chen has used various mate- rials, including cotton thread, silver thread and silk, to make and create new shapes. “Based on the basic knots, you can create countless shapes,” she said. At the same time, she has written a series of books that have been sold around the world that tell others how to tie such knots. In publishing the books, she gave a general name to Chinese knots — Zhongguojie — and called each specifi c knot by its own name. “For instance, the ‘wan zi’ knot did not have a name. I named it that way because ‘zi’ means character and the knot, which was found on a statue of the Buddhist god Bodhisat- tva Avalokitesvara (Guanyin), looks like the Chinese character ‘wan’,” Chen said. Th anks in part to the popu- larity of her books and the general name she has given to the knots, Chinese knots have become a symbol of China and are becoming more popular, not only domestically but also overseas. Chen’s latest project has seen her making two-dimensional art out of the knots and display- ing them on canvas. Usually, she knots with natural materials and then dyes diff erent parts of the knots with various colors. “Th e colors make the knots more organic. Th is is like paint- ing, you have to get a concept to express with your work.” CHINAFACE Artist bonds with knots LIU ZHE / FOR CHINA DAILY Chen Xiasheng, who has been engaged in promoting Chinese knotting to domestic and Western audiences, receives the Outstanding Fashion Personages Award 2011 in Beijing on Wednesday. Google-linked fi rms in tax fraud probe By QIAN YANFENG AND WANG XING CHINA DAILY SHANGHAI / BEIJING — Th ree companies linked to the Internet search giant Google have been investigated for alleged tax fraud in China, Economic Daily reported on Thursday, citing sources with China’s taxation authorities. Th e companies have allegedly been found using fake invoices and have had accounting and business tax irregularities involving more than 40 mil- lion yuan ($6.06 million), the report said. The taxation authorities are understood to have asked the companies to correct the problems and have retrieved the money. The report also said tax authorities are further inves- tigating Google businesses in China on suspicion of tax evasion. Google, the world’s larg- est Internet search company, responded to China Daily on Th ursday in a statement saying: “We believe we are, and always have been, in full compliance with Chinese tax law.” It was also not immediately clear whether the three com- panies are businesses solely owned by Google or if they are joint ventures or separate enti- ties that may do business with Google. Th ey included two that did not use the Chinese name for Google in their names and one that is called the Google Information Technology (China) Company Ltd. One of them, located in Raffl es City, a downtown offi ce building in Shanghai, bears the “Google” sign in its reception although its Chinese name did not suggest it is part of the com- pany. Visitors were barred from entering or asking any questions on Th ursday. Both the State Administra- tion of Taxation and Shanghai Local Taxation Bureau declined to comment on the allegations. It is not the first time that Google-connected businesses in China have been investigated for tax fraud. In October 2007, two Google- affi liated companies registered in Beijing were investigated for tax evasion allegedly involving more than 20 million yuan. Google has been riding on a roller-coaster in its develop- ment in China, which boasts the world’s largest Internet population. Since Google moved its Chi- nese mainland search engine servers to Hong Kong early last year, its market share dropped to 19.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, from 35.6 percent for the same period a year earlier. Its local rival Baidu, meanwhile, represented 75.5 percent of China’s online search market during the same period. Th e search giant’s long-term development in China encoun- tered another major obstacle when China’s largest Internet portal, Sina, said on Tuesday it had replaced Google’s search service on its websites with its own technology, further dent- ing the US giant’s presence in the Asian market. Xinhua contributed to this story. JIANGSU Deputy mayor to be executed Th e higher people’s court in Jiangsu province on Th ursday delivered a fi nal verdict upholding a death sentence for Jiang Renjie, the former deputy mayor of the province’s Suzhou city. Th e court rejected Jiang’s appeal against his death sentence, which was handed down by a provincial court in April 2008. Jiang had been sentenced for accepting bribes. He took bribes totaling 108.57 million yuan ($16.6 million) from developers between 2001 and 2004 while he was serving as deputy mayor of Suzhou city and was in charge of real estate development. BEIJING Rare earth quota raised for 2011 China aims to cap the total output of rare earth oxide this year at 93,800 tons, 5 percent higher than last year, the Ministry of Land and Resources announced on Th ursday. Th e country will not grant any new licenses for those wanting to mine or prospect for rare earths before June 30, 2012, the ministry said in a statement on its website. China has announced a slew of policies for rare earths this year to balance environ- mental protection needs with industrial demands, including stricter emissions limits and a resources tax. Wintry weather for North China A cold front will cause temperatures to drop by up to 14 C and bring snow to northern and northwestern regions during the next three days, the country’s weather authorities said on Th ursday. Light to moderate snow or sleet is forecast for parts of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Gansu and the central- northern part of North China, the National Meteo- rological Center said in a statement on its website. Th e southeastern part of Qinghai province will see moderate to heavy snow, the statement said. SPAIN Aircraft maker eyes new jets China’s major aircraft man- ufacturer, Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), will focus on researching the key technology needed to build a long-haul wide-body passenger jet, said Lin Zuom- ing, CEO of AVIC, in Madrid, Spain, on Th ursday. He revealed the informa- tion during a speech at the Sixth European Aeronautics Days, a three-day event that started on Wednesday. AVIC, one of the top 500 global companies with rev- enue of $25.2 billion last year, manufactures parts for China’s fi rst single-aisle jetliner, the C919, which is expected to enter the market in 2016. CHINA DAILYXINHUA briefl y FROM PAGE 1 confl ict between fellow countrymen,” Geng said, adding that the mainland has been committed to stabilizing cross-Straits relations and easing military security concerns. He suggested that the two sides should establish contacts and set up exchanges on military issues “at an appropriate time” and talk about the military security mechanism of mutual trust. Th e defense paper repeated opposition to sales of arma- ments by the United States to the island, saying they were “severely impeding Sino-US relations and impairing the peaceful development of cross-Straits ties”. Th e white paper also says China’s military wants to adopt confi dence-building measures with the militaries of other countries. That means China and other countries should deepen mutual understanding and trust on security, a new concept included for the fi rst time in the paper since it was launched in 1998, said Chen Zhou, an expert from the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Academy of Military Science, who participated in compiling the defense paper. “If a country wants to feel safe it has to make other nations feel the same. It refl ects China’s deepening view of security,” he told China Daily. Geng reasserted the Chinese stance that it would never use its military might to threaten neighbors. “At present and in the future, no matter how developed China is, China will never seek hegemony or pursue expan- sionist policies,’’ Geng said. “China’s armed forces adopt a peaceful, cooperative and constructive approach in participating in international mili- tary aff airs,’’ he said. But the defense white paper notes China faces an increas- ingly “volatile” Asian region where the US has expanded its strategic footprint, and that better military ties between Beijing and Washington rest on respect for each other’s inter- ests. “Th e US is reinforcing its regional military alliances and increasing its involvement in regional security aff airs,” it says. “Suspicion about China, interference and countering moves against China from the outside, are on the increase.” Military expenditure On China’s military expenditure in the past two years, the report said the share of China’s annual defense expenditure as part of its GDP has remained steady, while the share as part of overall State fi nancial expenditure has been moder